It’s fun watching Mexican oligarchs get their comeuppance: Televisa Chairman Emilio Azcárraga Jean falls and TV Azteca problems. Claudio X. González is a “toxic failson”. And in the Losers and Haters, Ryan Berg and academics like him.
One judge thinks she can overrule 36 million voters, Genaro García Luna, Donald Trump’s lies about Chinese automakers in Mexico and Kurt and José Luis also discuss Sheinbaum’s plans to build 1 million housing units & efforts to improve children’s health.
Tired of US Ambassador Ken Salazar running around Mexico like he owns the place, President Claudia Sheinbaum put a short leash on him, ordering the US diplomat to refrain from accessing her cabinet members directly and instead requesting meetings through the Foreign Affairs Secretariat, as it should be.
Soberanía: The Mexican Politics podcast hosts Kurt Hackbarth and José Luis Granados Ceja appear on Left Reckoning to discuss President Claudia Sheinbaum’s first few days as leader of Mexico.
Mexico’s New President Claudia Sheinbaum Tackles Early Challenges: Security, Hurricanes and a Judicial Coup Plot.
MSM’s Kurt Hackbarth interviewed on Breakthrough News
Soberanía goes over Sheinbaum’s first speeches as president, including the president outlining her 100-point agenda. Plus, the mañaneras are here to stay!
Our weekly roundup of press coverage in & of Mexico, including US Democrats turn hard right on border, SME union wins advances, AMLO nationalizes a port, the 43, energy reform, USMCA renegotiation, Acapulco flooding, the CIA and sexual violence, and corrupt Mexican billionaire and tax scofflaw tries to bribe Supreme Court.
Sunday, September 29th: a very special live episode of Soberanía with co-hosts Kurt Hackbarth & José Luis Granados Ceja and special guests Violeta Vázquez Rojas & Juan Pablo Morales Garza.
From storming the Senate Chamber to attacking elected officials out in public, supporters of the political right in Mexico are increasingly turning to extreme forms of protest.